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Professor eduardo fradkin is a donald biggar willett professor of physics and a center for advanced study professor at the university of illinois. Field theories of condensed matter physics by eduardo fradkin. Unlike abelian theories, such as the free electromagnetic eld, even in the absence of matter elds, nonabelian gauge theories are not free elds and have highly nontrivial dynamics. In particular, it is worthwhile to spend some some time thinking about nonperturbative physics, e ects of topology, solitons.
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